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Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

This book delves into the essence of human conduct, exploring the intricate relationship between culture and religion through a series of aphorisms and reflections. It examines the principles that govern social interactions and the profound impact of religious beliefs on individual and collective behavior. more

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John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding was a prominent American author whose works spanned a variety of fields including history, literature, and philosophy, leaving a profound impact on posterity. more

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“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

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“To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.”

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